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    The Silent Oligarch

    Written by Christopher Morgan Jones

    Narrated by Jason Culp

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    About this audiobook

    A London intelligence agent pursues a money launderer to expose the dealings of a shadowy Russian oligarch.

    In a world where national borders shrink to insignificance in the face of colossal wealth and corporate power, The Silent Oligarch offers a new kind of hero to combat a new kind of crime. Drawing on his decade of experience at the world's largest corporate intelligence firm-where the wealthy buy the justice they want and the silence they need-Chris Morgan Jones leads us down into the unvarnished realities of our time in the grand tradition of John le Carré. Bearing news from a world hidden behind closed doors, The Silent Oligarch effortlessly creates a new genre in its wake.

    Deep in the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources sits a nondescript bureaucrat named Konstantin Malin. He draws a nominal government salary but from his shabby office controls half the nation's oil industry, making him one of the most wealthy and feared men in Russia. His public face is Richard Lock, a hapless money launderer bound to Malin by marriage, complacency, and greed. Lock takes the proceeds of his master's corruption, washes them abroad, and invests them back in Russia in a secret business empire. He knows little about Malin's true affairs, but still he knows too much.

    Benjamin Webster is an investigator at a London corporate intelligence firm. Years before, as an idealistic young journalist in Russia, Webster saw a colleague murdered for asking too many hard questions of powerful people; her true killers have never been found. Hired to ruin Malin, Webster comes to realize that this shadowy figure might have ordered her gruesome death, and that this case may deliver the justice he has been seeking for a decade.

    As Webster peels back the layers of Malin's shell companies and criminal networks, Lock's colleagues begin dying mysteriously, police around the world start to investigate, and Malin begins to question his trust in his increasingly exposed frontman. Suddenly Lock is running for his life- though from Malin or Webster, the law or his own past, he couldn't say.

    Leading us into a world we can know little about, The Silent Oligarch is the brilliant overture of a major new literary talent.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJan 19, 2012
    ISBN9781101538784
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    • 4/5
      Chris Morgan Jones The Silent Oligarch Malin was one of the most important persons in Russia because he control half of the nations in the oil company and Benjamin Webster is an investigator hired to ruin Malin. People between 16 and more should read this book because have so many good things and how to appreciate life.
    • 3/5
      Taut, intelligent, unflashy spy thriller which made me want to follow up on the writer's other novels. As a good thriller should, it starts slowly but then gradually builds to an unexpected (by me) climax. Ben Webster is definitely not a hero, but is not an anti-hero either. You are made, by the writer's skill to feel some sympathy for him and the other main protagonist, Richard Lock, but not too much.
      I enjoyed it a lot and found myself not doing other things to read more which is a compliment to any book.
    • 3/5
      A fairly typical espionage story about Russia. The Russian side of things is fairly accurate. It is fast paced but has some good character development. My only complaint is that the almost exclusive use of last names made it confusing at times.
    • 3/5
      A complex plot which I found strangely unengaging.
    • 4/5
      This financial/espionage thriller is about a shady Greek businessman’s attempt to destroy a Russian oligarch, Malin. This is done by employing British investigator Ben Webster who decides to investigate the oligarch’s front man, Dutch lawyer Richard Lock. The story is seen through the eyes of these two characters.I thought the book was very well written with a style similar to John Le Carre. The book describes how a maze of offshore companies might be used for money laundering. I found this interesting if a little text book like. The author really conveys a mood of menace and gives a good description of the moral dilemmas facing Webster and Lock. However I found the pace too slow and the plot lacked excitement.
    • 5/5
      The plot has been outlined by other reviewers. I just wanted to add that this book is a worthy read for anybody who is interested not only in suspension/crime genre but also in how Russian money-business-politics work, how people get rich in Russia, and how they corrupt everyone around them. The novel is fascinating and well written. It usually takes me several days, if not weeks, to read a book. I finished this book in just two days. Just as fascinating as C. Doctorow's "Little Brother".
    • 4/5
      Set in exotic and upscale locations - think Monaco, Geneva, Moscow, London, and so forth - The Silent Oligarch is an unusual legal and financial thriller. Richard Lock, an ordinary corporate lawyer becomes the front man for Malin, one of the most powerful and wealthiest Russian oligarchs. This has meant quite a lot of perks until things turn bad fast. When Lock finds himself hunted by lawyers, journalists, and courts in connection with a white collar crime investigation, he knows that he's also up against the enormous wealth, power, and reach of his principal, Malin. The dilemmas, the possible escapes and traps are of the white collar sort and, while not always fastpaced, The Silent Oligarch is a fun, engrossing read.
    • 5/5
      I’ve been looking for a new author of this sort of contemporary thriller, but without much success. Most of what I’ve been coming across just isn’t very well-written, despite a promising plot idea. I’ve finally found a great new author – Chris Morgan Jones. As you can guess from the title, The Silent Oligarch is about nefarious doings in Russia. There is no need to give away the plot here. What you need to know is that this book is very well-written. The characters are complex enough to be real; none are caricatures of Good or Evil. The situation is complex, but believable. The locales – Moscow, London, Berlin – will be real for you. Jones is the equal of Graham Greene and John le Carré. Really. NOTE: The Silent Oligarch was previously published as Agent of Deceit in the UK.